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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	day_n	law_n	word_n	11,415	5	4.4659	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90228	An arrow against all tyrants and tyrany, shot from the prison of New-gate into the prerogative bowels of the arbitrary House of Lords, and all other usurpers and tyrants whatsoever. wherein the originall rise, extent, and end of magisteriall power, the naturall and nationall rights, freedomes and properties of mankind are discovered, and undeniably maintained; ... the late Presbyterian ordinance (invented and contrived by the diviners, and by the motion of Mr. Bacon and Mr. Taet read in the House of Commons) examined, refuted, and exploaded, as most inhumaine, tyranicall and barbarous. / By Richard Overton prerogative archer to the arbitrary House of Lords, their prisoner in New-gate, ... sent by way of a letter from him, to Mr Henry Martin, a Member of the House of Commons. Imprimatur rectat justitia.	Overton, Richard, fl. 1646.	1646 (1646)	Wing O622; Thomason E356_14; ESTC R201139	14,134	20

Petitioner under the pretence of a Criminall fact being in a warlike manner brought before the House of Lords to be tried and by them put to answer to Interogatories concerning himselfe both which your Petitioner humbly conceiveth to be illegall and contrary to the naturall rights freedoms and properties of the free Commoners of England confirmed to them by Magna Charta the Petition or Right and the Act for the abolishment of the Star-chamber he therefore was enboldened to refuse subjection to the said House both in the one and the other expressing his resolution before them that he would not infringe the private Rights and properties of himselfe or of any one Commoner in particular or the common Rights and properties of this Nation in generall For which your Petitioner was by them adjudged contemptuous by an Order from the said House was therefore committed to the Goale of Newgate where from the 11. of August 1646. to this present he hath lyen and there commanded to be kept till their Pleasures shall be further signified as a copy of the said Order hereunto annexed doth declare which may be perpetuall if they please and may have their wils for your Petitioner humbly conceiveth that thereby he is made a Prisoner to their Wils not to the Law except their Wils may be a Law Wherefore your leige Petitioner doth make his humble appeale unto this most Soveraigne House as to the highest Court of Judicatory in the Land wherein all the appeales thereof are to centure beyond which none can legally be made humbly craving both in testimony of his acknowledgment of its legall regality of his due submission thereunto that your Honours therein assembled would take his cause and in his the cause of all the free Commoners of England whom you represent for whom you sit into your serious consideration and legall determination that he may either by the mercy of the Law be repossessed of his just liberty and freedome and thereby the whole Commons of England of theirs thus unjustly as he humbly conceiveth usurped invaded by the House of LORDS with due repairations of all such damages so sustained or else that he may undergoe what penalty shall in equity by the impartiall severity of the Law be adjudged against him by this Honourable House in case by them he shall be legally found a transgressour herein And Your Petitioner as in duty bound shall ever pray c. Die Martis 11. Augusti 1646. It is this day Ordered by the Lords in Parliament assembled that _____ Overton brought before a Committee of this House for printing scandalous things against this House is hereby committed to the Prison of New-gate for his high contempt offered to this House and to the said Committee by his contempteous words and gesture and refusing to answer unto the Speaker And that the said Overton shall be kept in safe custody by the Keeper of New-gate or his deputy untill the Pleasure of the House be further signified John Brown Cleric Parl. Examinat per Ra. Brisco Clricu de New-gate To the Gentleman Usher attending this House or his Deputy to be delivered to the Keeper of New-gate on his Deputy Postscript SIR YOur unseasonable absence from the House chiefly while Mistres Lilburns Petition should have been read you having a REPORT to make in her husbands behalfe whereby the hearing thereof was defer'd and retarded did possesse my mind with strong jealousies and feares of you that you either preferred your own pleasure or private interest before the execution of justice and judgement or else withdrew your selfe on set purpose through the strong instigation of the Lords to evade the discharge of your trust to God and to your Coūt●y but at your returne understanding that you honestly ●●●thfully d●d redeem your absent time I was dispossessed of those feares and jealousies So that for my over-hasty censorious esteem of you I humbly crave your excuse hoping you will rather impute it to the fervency of my faithfull zeale to the common good then to any malignant disposition or disaffection in me towards you Yet Sir in this my suspition I was not single for it was even become a generall surmise Wherefore Sir for the awarding your innocency for the future from the tincture of such unjust and calumnious suspitions be you diligent and faithfull instant in season and out of season omit no opportunity though with never so much hazard to your person estate or family to discharge the great trust in you reposed with the rest of your fellow members for the redemption of your native Country from the Arbitrary Domination and usurpations either of the House of LORDS or any other And since by the divine providence of God it hath pleased that Honourable Assembly whereof you are a Member to select and sever you out from amongst themselves to be of that Committee which they haue Ordained to receive the Commoners complaints against the House of LORDS granted upon the foresaid most honourable Petition Be you therefore impartiall and just active and resolute care neither for favours nor smiles and be no respector of persons let not the greatest Peers in the Land be more respected with you then somany old Bellowes-menders Broom men Coblers Tinkers or Chimney-sweepers who are all equally Free borne with the hudgest men and lostiest Anachims in the Land Doe nothing for favour of the one or feare of the other and have a care of the temporary Sagacity of the new Sect of OPPORTUNITY POLITITIANS whereof we have got at least two or three too many for delayes demurres of Justice are of more deceitfull dangerous consequence then the flat open deniall of its execution for the one keeps in suspence makes negligent remisse the other provokes to speedy defence makes active and resolute Therefore be wise quick stout and impartiall neither spare favour or connive at friend or foe high or low rich or poore Lord or Commoner And let even the saying of the Lord with which I will close this present discourse close with your heart and be with you to the death Leviticus 19. 15. Yee shall doe no unrighteousnesse in judgement thou shalt not respect the person of the poore nor honour the person of the mighty but in righteousnesse shalt thou judge thy neighbour October 12. 1646. FINIS